After last year's digital debacle, the Daytime Emmy Awards ceremony is returning to TV in a deal with Pop, the former TV Guide Network cabler that was relaunched in January.
The 42nd annual Daytime Emmy telecast will originate from a soundstage on the...

CBS' veteran soap "The Young and the Restless" leads the pack of nominees for the 41st annual Daytime Emmy Awards with 26 bids.
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" paces the race among talkers with nine nominations.
"Young and the Restless" will vie against NBC'...

The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for the 41st annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Thursday, with perennial favorites "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," "Sesame Street" and "The Young and the Restless" racking up multiple nods....

The Daytime Emmy Awards have settled on a date and a location -- now all they need is a TV deal.
The 41st ceremony will be held June 22 at the Beverly Hilton. The date had been in flux as the New York-based National Academy of Television Arts &...

Cavu Pictures has come on board to release the documentary "Breastmilk" in U.S. theaters -- starting with a Mother's Day weekend release on May 7 in New York.
Dana Ben-Ari directed "Breastmilk" with Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein executive producing. The film will open in Los Angeles on May 16 and expand into other markets during the summer.
The film explores the social debate over breastfeeding among those who want to breastfeed, those who can't breastfeed and the cultural impact of breastfeeding choices....

Warner Bros.' "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," which has won Daytime Emmy's entertainment talkshow prize three times since 2008, is again the yakker to beat, especially with host Ellen DeGeneres coming off a highly viewed gig hosting the Oscars.
"(Emmy voting) should be done on the merits of (DeGeneres') talkshow, not on the basis of hosting the Oscars because it's a different category," says Brad Adgate, research director at Horizon Media. "But her numbers are up, she's been doing this for 12 years and she's...

The soap bubble that was supposed to burst is still very much intact.
A couple of years after "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" brought to five the number of daytime dramas axed by the networks over a five-year stretch, the genre is flourishing.
Ratings are up at the four remaining soaps -- "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful" on CBS, "General Hospital" on ABC and "Days of Our Lives" on NBC -- and, in this DVR era, any kind of gain is cause for celebration.
One reason...

The Daytime Emmy Awards is used to being in a state of flux.
The kudosfest, still negotiating a home for this year's telecast, has switched networks almost annually for four decades and has been beset by a 20-year ratings slide. Case in point: In 1993, the broadcast garnered 22 million viewers. Last year, viewers of the HLN telecast numbered 913,000.
According to Gabriel Gornell, who exec produced the past two telecasts, audience apathy may be due to the ceremony's strong focus on one genre: soap...

Madeline Amgott, who was one of the only women to produce TV news programming in the 1950s and '60s, died of lymphoma on Saturday in Manhattan. She was 92.
But Amgott's achievements went beyond just successfully penetrating a male-dominated arena. She produced what was likely the first network-affiliate news program independent of network resources: "The Big News," which aired on New York City's WABC in the early '60s.
Amgott also produced episodes of CBS newsmagazine "60 Minutes" and a children's...

Martin Tahse, a producer of numerous ABC Afterschool Specials as well as similar content at other networks who was the winner of two Daytime Emmys, has died.
Tahse was the producer or executive producer of more than 20 ABC Afterschool Specials starting with 1974′s "Pssst! Hammerman's After You!" and ending with 1989′s "Just Tipsy, Honey," which he wrote as well as produced. Others included "Dear Lovey Hart: I Am Desperate," "What Are Friends For?" and "A Desperate Exit."
He won Daytime Emmys...